2004 Mustang, 6 cyl, 4.2L. Changing my son’s tranny fluid for the first time and noticed a plastic part in the pan that I’m assuming fell as I was dropping the pan. It’s about 1.5 inches long and I’ve attached a picture next. Does anyone know what this part is and where it goes ??
Here’s what it looks like :
That little piece is used to seal part of the transmission during assembly, and is pushed into the pan as part of the final process. It is now to be discarded.
So it doesn’t hold anything (like the filter) ? I can just push the filter into the tube and re-assemble and fill ?
That’s right.
Just throw it away.
transman
Agreed and I’ve found these things in my Ford transmissions too. With tongue firmly implanted in cheek I could say that it’s a torque converter lock that fell out due to Ford’s lousy converter lock retainer ring… 